Within FEWS, a variety of location types is used to hold all model input and outputs:
- point locations, holding time series of scalars
- branch locations, holding a longitudinal profile timeseries, i.e. a time series of a river stretch
- grids, holding a time series on a model grid (or a sparse grid i.e. a cloud of points)
- polygons, holding a time series on polygons
All geographic properties of point loations are held in the Locations.xml file.
All geographic properties of branch-locations are held in the Branches.xml file
All geographic properties of gris are defined in the Grids.xml file
All geographic properties of polygons are defined in the Polygons.xml file, which typically refers to an ESRI shape file to hold the shapes.
However, since FEWS software relates all its time series data to locations, as defined in the Locations.xml, one should take care that all branches, grids and polygons have a locationId in the locations.xml file to act a a placeholder.
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Point locations are described in the Locations.xml filelocatiosn
Locations are essential to hold the model data and to relate licences and observation boreholes to the modelsneed to be predefined.
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